Alkaline Trio- Time To Waste Live on MTV

[terrorfearor]

cookie cutter shit, and what interesting lyrics

[HAsmatarian]

WoW! Hell yeah! Love Alkaline Trio! Listening to a lot of Alkaline Trio, Hey You!, The Offspring, All Time Low, The Get Up Kids, Blink-182, and No Doubt....

Hey You! is still pretty new, but they're waaaaaaaay dope. Pop/Punk/Rock with a real cool edge. Plus they've got a pretty cute chick singer :-) check em out....

search "hey you band taking over"

[ninjastalker92]

@HAsmatarian I was going to complain about promoting something on here, because usually it's annoying...but they actually aren't half bad...

[Alkalinepanda]

Only if MTV was this owesome now -.-

[SuperKulotzki]

aus



[TheOriginalZeotcho]

Ya know, I gotta hand it to Alk3 for sounding good live as well as recorded. It's refreshing to know that somebody still can. Please, don't reply, I really don't care about who else sounds good live, or any of your opinions whatsoever. You can comment about this comment, but no replies, graci xD in any case, gotta love this music!

[gamesaddict]

@TheOriginalZeotcho lots of bands sound good live and have done for a long time.

[katadantesux]

I think he sold that guitar on Ebay... Whoever got it is one lucky MF.

[quikoni]

Why these guys aren't more Famous is beyond me. Skiba's lyrics are like Shakespeare. So F'n good

[KlasKlaettermus]

@quikoni I couldn't agreee more

[lenyhaha]

4:03 wtf derek?? oO

[CaramelMarshmallow]

im seeing them tomorrow night :]

[Kristy29R]

Seeing them in March! Love seeing them live, can't wait ! <3

[batboy420494]

same, at the nokia

[GraceXTheXLoser]

4:03 to 4:06 is lovely!

hahaha

I fucking LOVE ALKALINE TRIO

[patron810]

@GraceXTheXLoser

holly fk he scared the sh1t out of me... lovem

[NickGuy0320]

hahahah the drummer rocks!

[fightoffyourdemons91]

any one ever wonder who wrpte the piano part

[iluvwarpedtour]

Im pretty sure it was matt because he once stated that his mother made him learn piano and he played it for quite some time

[doorwayman]

@fightoffyourdemons91 Dan Andriano (the bassist) did.. He plays the piano. :)

[albertassociate]

@fightoffyourdemons91 probably skiba

[headrolling]

i bet they're amzing in concert

[punxndrublik420]

They are more then amazing live it is something that every person should see

[DrQuantum27]

drummer is a beast!

[thenotsofantastic69]

@DrQuantum27 your right...fucking Derek Grant....i would let his cock live in my mouth

[ExpansiveHeart77]

It bums me out that they never come around me.

[voodootony]

The drums are so sick!

[okxdad]

4:04-4:07 is the best 3 seconds of the video

[deathdealer60546]

Agreed! We never get to see drummers!!

[culley182]

mat skiba is the BEST SONG WRITER. =]

[BackfromthaGrave]

hell yes!!!

[L2bass006]

LOL 4:04 lol i see what you mean HAHAHAHAHAH.

[bucknotsoofast]

i can play it

my band coverd this nd i took me a wile to get it ryt but i did in the end up

all u need is practise :)

[Andyarr]

all you need is practice typing.

[LACKofSKILLzzz]

i love alkaline trio.

and the drummer is the perfect drummer for this band.

it doesn't matter what you can do on drum,

just that you fit the genre.

and both matt and dan have great voices.

i love how they switch back and forth.

their music doesnt get old. :)

[Mambitalia]

Derek's a great singer aswell =]

[volaricc]

i just noticed how hard that drum track is....

[94music]

yeah man derek grant is the man

[Boxcar8118]

You've definately got to have some skill to pull it off as well as he does...

[volaricc]

yeah that and some good ass endurance

[grelley]

Gah! 4:04 scared the shiz out of me, lol.

[Kamino07]

haha. yup

[ximandyurnotx]

i love these guys. but i still love the old days.

[00432973]

I fuckin love these guys

[cfred2911]

They tend to do that.

Emma, If You Had A Bad Time, Blue In The Face, and I'm sure there's more.

[xEndOfEverything]

this sound better than the performance in fuse..

but alkaline trio is a fuckin good band :D

[clowtin92]

i saw these at Give it a Name 08, didnt really know who they were haha

but they rock

the bassist really reminds me of Omid Djalilli

[EpicFailChris]

Never noticed that before :p

[timbo526]

skiba's les paul is awesome

[funkyfleabass]

Regular Gold Top with a decal :P?

[FreakyThom]

he sold it.

on ebay, it went for like $4000 i think, maybe more.

he's playing washburns i think?

[funkyfleabass]

I think that's a while ago, saw them live two/three weeks ago, he's still playing a Goldtop and a Silverbust that's almost green due to bad painting. Both Les Pauls that is.

[FreakyThom]

hmm, i saw his name and a picture of him in Total Guitar under the washburn advert. hmmm, its gonna bug me now.

ahh well, he, and the rest of A3 are awesome. end of!

[funkyfleabass]

They still make that signature indeed I think.

[andr123w]

its not due to bad painting. adam jones from tool has one. its almost green because its been exposed to sunlight for to long from what ive read on them. if its still the original or close to original paint there worth alot of mooolah

[funkyfleabass]

Skiba said it himself in an interview, Gibson had for that model a few bad painting years, something in the mixture or anything like that. Don't say I'm right, I'm only saying what the master said himself ;)!

[s3xyb3astsixty9]

that's entirely too creepy that you just referred to a lead singer and guitar player of a band as the master. don't get me wrong alkaline trio is my favorite band and has been for a couple years, but it's just too creepy to refer to someone as 'master' because they know something about a guitar.

[funkyfleabass]

Owh please dude, see my remark in perspective :S.

[IMaDInOsAuRXDD]

(orgasm) i love this songgg and this band more of all!! they've like been my fav for honostly like 5-6 years ever sence i heard them!

[bamz4life]

What's so badass with that drums?! Damn thats nothin special.. not that im bragging.. but thats what most noobs say

[farmboy504]

well derek is quite a good drummer. just because you don't find him to be that great does not mean he is a bad drummer.

[schase10353]

It hurts me to hear Matt struggling to keep his voice. In the last few albums Dan has taken over. Dan's a good enough singer to carry the band but I deeply miss Matt's voice.

[Filbunkish]

yeah, you can here it in interviews when he's talking too... his voice is really trashed. too bad. still a great band though!

[FleaFan16]

yeah.. agreed

[GreggleZz]

i like how they dont cut out the piano intro

[jake824]

hahahahahaha

[drugtrain777]

Dan's bass is pretty.

[xOutRagex]

jeah,wondering what model is...

it's sure a jazz bass but in wich mood?

[BrenMan94]

It's his JPC Signature model. Basically a Jazz bass. The neckhead is green on the sig', but he replaced it with a J-bass black block neck.

[davido83]

Badass drummer.

[Denapz]

yeah, that drummer is tight.

[rosie1291]

derek<3

[thirdherotostilllive]

Yoh! When the members start playing after the piano in the intro it sounds flippen awesome! Decent!!!

[yyou2]

wow there awesome live

[zainazimbardo]

i love the lyrics sooooooooooo much

[sabanitas2112]

I'm looking for the version they played at Late Night with Conan O'Brien, in my opinion it was the best "Time To Waste" performance on TV.

[999crewisbored]

really? cuz whoever played the piano part for that live performance screwed the song up terribly. how does it feel to suck at life?

[bassrocker234]

Jrodd321, no one cares about your cover of emma, it sucks

[elmstterror]

hahaha, hi five

[999crewisbored]

hooray! you can play someone else's song. you must be proud that you can't write anything of your own.

[crapbag5892]

lol. nice. you written stuff?(not hostile just wondering.)

[suburbiaburnsred]

ahhh i love it much better than the cd version. so fuckin good

[paulafreg]

great band!

[martinezsix5o]

I'm enjoying this more than the studio version.

[Maartiegitaartie]

One of the best live bands ever.

[habck]

Yeah, they dont actualy just have a radio voice but a performance voice.

[piratz22]

One of the best bands to see live.

[naak45]

amen

[futuremrscool13]

three VERY talented men

[Sleevlus]

I love how he looks at the camra at 4:04.

[korkster90189]

im with you on that one.......amazing.

[bloodandwhiskey5]

i hate when skiba puts on eyeliner

[Yesterheaven]

I think it fits him

[tehd0minator]

Same here.

[Yesterheaven]

He looks teh best on Letterman's with All On Black

[ZombieSlayer93]

Whos skoba diver?

[IJsko]

is it a sin to use google? geez...

[Sleevlus]

My fav AK3 song. They are guenesses. Sorry for the crappy writeing but they are all gods, as you all well know.

[cky1066]

lol it looks so awkward with them just standing there in the beginning

alkaline trio is the fuckin shit

[JakeAmdahl]

You take that back!

haha, yeah it kinda does huh.

[pitblinkfan]

what a fuckin good show!

[aarond636]

please God put Alkaline Trio on "Rock Band" this song would be so much fun to play

[rockmusicmaster]

Send A request... I did

[gollick]

Not every band uses clicks! Most modern bands do. Bands from the 60s n 70s usually didn't.

It depends if you record live (which i think is always best)

[NoPointProduction]

for noen slemme folk :O

[ilovemrtubbs]

using a click is key to staying on time with pre-recorded tracks.

it is absolutely essential with performance.

get off time, and you're screwed.

way to know what you're talking about, davegrohlisgod.

jackass.

[davegrohlizgod]

lo fuckin no1 uses a click track ....if ure a musician of there level why wud u need a click track ?

[StringsofMartyr]

...what's wrong with using a click track? If you've ever played in a setting like that, you should know that at those volumes, it's really easy to get lost in all the sound. Metronomes are really helpful.

Just sayin'.

[markhoppusisgod1882]

dude everyband uses a click track in recording

[bobinson]

You should spell out your words. It will make you look less like a moron.

[MissSedgwick]

hey whoa guys calm down, alkaline trio is no ashlee simpson. they are THE shit!

[greg111234]

theres nothing wrong with the guys having a second guitarist play some parts loads of bands do it i mean queen used the whole time on the solos to make it look like brian may was doing the harmony parts by himself

[Prolific85]

I know they aren't anything special, but Goo Goo Dolls do it to.

[markhoppusisgod1882]

so did green day but now hes just part of the band

[ShortstopFromTokyo]

actually, Jason White isn't part of the band. He's been asked to be, but declined.

[unclespinnydurbish]

you would know...

[mtbanta]

yea that kid is talking out of his ass

[frcfed]

And Derek is a fucking champion, from 3:20 to 3:35 he fucking shines.

[markhoppusisgod1882]

dude derek has always been the champion and always will be

[seinfeld41]

derek is great...he's a very consistent drummer

[frcfed]

There's nothing lame about using a backing track, it's the song. It's what makes the song, you can't expect them to have a million other people on stage fucking around. Trio forver.

[foxtrotsky]

the most impressive thing about this video is the bands ability, mostly the drummers ability, to stay on time perfectly. without a backing piano track, they would have had room to fuck up, or even barely speed up or slow down unknowingly for complicated drum fills, but when the piano comes back in half way through the song, its perfect. thats hard to do.

[tbwannab]

see those things in their ears....those are called in ear monitors...they could just have a guy cueing the piano when it comes back in...but if not they could also be playing to a click track

[foxtrotsky]

i can't say that there was or wasn't a piano track playing the whole time. but it makes no difference if it was cued back in or if it played throughout the entire song. if the piano was cued back in when that part of the song came, do you hear any difference in tempo between the band's playing and the piano? no. that would mean that the drummer and rest of the band kept perfect tempo, whether or not there was a click track involved. that shits impressive. thats why these guys are musicians.

[rczull]

I'm sorry, I love these guys, but I think playing to a backing track or whatever is pretty lame. I remember thinking that when i saw them on the crimson tour. However, when they played a bunch of dates for the 'goddammit' tenth anniversary, they didn't use all the effects, and I thought it was a much better show.

Matt and Dan actually sound kind of tone deaf in this clip, anyway.

[semmy12]

omg this song is amazing! me and my friend can play this song on the piano!!!! its gnarly

[jorinaapje]

Dogedart67: Listen to there older stuff. They have always been a trio. In many songs of there latest record 'crimson', they have used some backup guitar and piano's. Songs such as Settle for satin, Time to waste, Sadie. Occasionally they use there backup guitar performed by Nolan McGuire. A example is the live performance at reading, which you can watch here on youtube.

[Dogedart67]

Who's playing the piano??? for that matter who is playing the leads? I thought they are a "Trio."

[franquesenbiens]

I'm guessing they used the recorded version of the piano...but the pianist on the album is Roger Manning...you can see him on this song from Conan O'Brien.

As far as the leads, there are no leads in this video, definitely only one guitar. Sometimes Nolan McGuire plays backup guitar at shows, but not last time I saw them on the Occult Roots tour.

Trio is a trio.

[Dogedart67]

You just named 5 players total. How does that equal a trio( my point being)? That's lame that they use a previously recorded track live. Where do they draw the line??? Sounds like mili vanili to me.

[franquesenbiens]

Trio is a trio because the other two people I mentioned are not in the band. Matt, Dan, and Derek write, record, and play the music. Nobody else records their music for them. Sometimes, not always, they have extra players to fatten the live sound up. When I saw them on tour, they left out the piano and had no extra guitar.

Are solo artists not solo artists if they have a backing band?

[franquesenbiens]

Were the Beatles not a quartet because they had backup musicians?

Are any bands who have ever played with a symphony not really a band?

For example, nobody with any sense has ever claimed that a 5-man band that played with a 100 member orchestra became a 105-person band.

[oCSkAteRrR]

totally right dude!!

[franquesenbiens]

Oh, wait! There's a video on YouTube of Alkaline Trio playing at Warped Tour, and Chris #2 from Anti-Flag and Chuck Ragan from HWM come out and sing "Radio" with them! I guess they have been in the band for a few years now too!

And I don't know that they used the prerecorded track, that's just my guess. If that's the case, I guess they probably used it because the pianist couldn't be there. Or maybe MTV insisted on the piano track being present, even if Trio could play the song without it.

[lapsaria]

no, there are other tracs going on, there is obviously another guitarist there...he's PRETTY burried in behind matt, but he's there.

if you listen to the little bridge-y part, you can hear before the octave chord part there aer two guitars...one is pretty much all treble Tonally. and matts tone is slightly more rounded.

fact is, you can hear it if you REALLY try.

However im not denying the fact that the trio is still a trio.

[JeffDahlin]

You're right, they use a 2nd guitarist when they play live. He usually stands behind the amps. I think it makes their sound more solid.

[franquesenbiens]

I definitely don't hear the other guitar.

I think the part where I really notice is the outro. There is the F# (if I remember right) chord that is repeated 4 times in the outro. On the album version, after the second repeat the two guitar tracks split...one stays on the F#, the other goes to octave chords. On this version, it is pretty clearly just Matt on the octave, after he moves off the F#, there is no guitar that stays on the F#, as I would assume the backup guitar would do.

[franquesenbiens]

Comparing them to Milli Vanilli, a band who had another person record all their material, and lip-synched live, is completely invalid, as there is really no basis for comparison.

[otromantube]

probably their best song ever!

[tbwannab]

hahah 4:04

[fueghfiuehfuehfue]

I totally didn't notice that till you netioned it. funny shit.

[taoabbey69]

fuck ya! these guys could plug into a dead slug and great tone, but matt allisons' production does wounders for there sound. on ALL there albums, i should know i listen to them constantly. best band ever.

[inkgallery]

A great strong with a great message and now that they had a spot on MTV more people will be able to see how talented they are.

[xavounet33]

awesome , this song makes me sick

[EmbracexThexDarkness]

i love it when derek stares at the camera, its funny. ALK3 is my favorite

[mcrafiused]

the skull inside the heart thing is cool

[Feefix]

they did pretty good live

[6bateman6]

the reason matt's voice is off is because at this time he was taking steroids to lower his voice because it has been getting higher the older he has gotten thats why it isnt the best of quality and thats why he has trouble reaching the high notes. did anyone notice on good mourning matt's voice is totally different from maybe ill catch fire. the point is matt kicks ass as does all of alkaline trio....dan never ceases to mak me laugh especially when he grew a beard

[CBdrums1185]

Derek Grant is Amazing

Matt was never really good at singing live, so when i saw the video i sorta expected his singing not to be his best.

and Dan is a real good bassist, don't like when he sings tho.

[XpaNiconde3rdflorX]

FUCK YOU BIITCH DANS VOICE IS TEH SEX

[quikfingers7264]

derek is the shit

[quikfingers7264]

are those sabians?

[pp3643]

i love alkaline trio! :D

[Childsd]

I really like this song and I was looking for a video of it and I have to say, the singer is disappointing in this one. He's struggleing for the high notes and seems really unstable vocal-wise. Great studio version, less than average live. Kinda seems like he's crying when I watch it a second time.

[jitneyman52]

fuckj you matt skiba is tight

[SixHarding]

Sorry but I'm not even a fan of Alkaline Trio's new stuff because of his changed vocals. But even I have to admit, he sings a lot better than he used to. And that live version is almost identical to the studio vocal wise.  Of course he's working hard to reach high notes because it's not easy, but he's hitting them.

[Childsd]

When you're as famous and mainstream as Alkaline Trio, you're not expected to "work hard" at the high notes, you're supposed hit them and make it seem easy, period. His voice is smoother and doesn't tremble as much in the studio version. Listen two the two back to back and you'll see what I mean.

[thelinerule]

Well there's prob been a lot of tweeking done to it in the studio to be fair. And it's not really about having perfect vocals. The notes are there, there's feeling put into it, and the harmonies aren't a million miles off. It's rougher, but isn't that part of the appeal of live versions?

[Fatefellshort]

Alkaline trio is sick. nuff said.

[Alkalinetrioreligion]

hes more than a god okay hes the grand puba the don the generalisimo hes the one and only

[kperez1982]

Wow...they're amazing live.

[guitarguru15]

that drummer is sick

[tbwannab]

hahah near the end when derek is just staring at the camera...thats great

[quikfingers7264]

roflmao i just noticed that

[MetalHeadO13]

Awsome!

[loversxend87]

fucking rad video! its hard to find a good quality live clip of this song! rock on. and nice username lol

[GustGrantBarker]

THIS MUSIC RULES!

NICE VIDEO

[JpnsKid808]

this song is awesome